We made a SkateBack for your iPhone 4 and 4S from recycled industrial skateboard waste!!

Each
week, one skateboard factory produces enough waste material to fill a city bus.
By
teaming up with Grove, we’re using this material to create a 100%
post-industrial material product for the iPhone 4 and 4S.

At approximately 1/16 of an inch
thick, SkateBacks protect the iPhone from damage while coupling the
sleek Apple design with classic skateboard aesthetic. Unique is an understatement. Our SkateBacks are made at Grove’s
workshop here in Portland, OR, with a combination of high-tech machinery and
good old-fashioned handiwork. Three general color types are available to choose
from: Calm, Neutral, or Vibrant. However, each SkateBack is as singular as a
snowflake - no two are exactly alike!

Material
Sourcing

The
SkateBack evolution works like this: from raw skateboard waste at the PS Stix
factory, to eye-catching ply with us at MapleXO, and finally to cell phone
accessory at Grove. PS Stix owner Paul Schmitt, of Costa Mesa, CA, has been manufacturing
skateboards for nearly three decades. His company makes more than 4,000
skateboards a day, 200 per hour, that’s more than three per minute. We've been working with Schmitt on recycling his waste
for years.

Working with Grove to make these SkateBacks has been a great way to
jumpstart our next big projects in the works with recycling industrial
skateboard waste. This is really just the beginning! -Lindsay Jo